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In a heated debate about media bias on the ABC’s Q+A program, the former prime minister says Rupert Murdoch and his media company have ‘done enormous damage’ to western democracies, in particular on the subject of global warming. ‘The company you work for and its friends in politics, like Trump and others, have turned this issue of physics into an issue of values or identity,’ Malcolm Turnbull tells the Australian’s editor-at-large, Paul Kelly, adding: ‘Saying you believe or disbelieve in global warming is like saying you believe or disbelieve in gravity.’ He calls on Kelly and other New Corp employees to ‘speak up’ and call out their employer. Kelly argues that Turnbull is exaggerating the impact that Murdoch’s global media company has on the issue of climate change

• Q+A: Malcolm Turnbull clashes with News Corp’s Paul Kelly over climate coverage

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On the eve of the release of an expert report that could help revolutionise the “murky” global voluntary carbon market, the head of South Pole - one of the world’s biggest offset developers - says the authoring taskforce led by former Bank of England head Mark Carney is "barking up the wrong tree" and should be focused more on how to significantly raise prices than on creating benchmarks or improving transparency.

The UK plans to become the first major economy to require all listed companies and investors to disclose their climate risks, Finance Minister Rishi Sunak said on Monday, setting a deadline three years longer than draft plans had outlined. 

Revenue from the Tesla big battery at the Hornsdale Power Reserve fell by half in the third quarter – compared to the same quarter a year earlier – as the market from frequency control and ancillary services contracted, and as the country’s biggest battery took time off to complete its recent expansion. Figures released by...

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Germany's European Energy Exchange (EEX) has been re-appointed by the European Commission as the Common Auction Platform (CAP) for carbon allowance auctions during the first half of the EU ETS' Phase 4 (2021-20).

Rishi Sunak says disclosures will be mandatory within five years as part of net-zero plans

Large companies and financial institutions in the UK will have to come clean about their exposure to climate risks within five years under the terms of a tougher regime announced by the chancellor, Rishi Sunak.

In an attempt to demonstrate the government’s commitment to tackling global heating, Sunak said the UK would go further than an international taskforce had recommended and make disclosure by large businesses mandatory.

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From property to local government, economic sectors are meeting the climate change challenge head on. Now the federal government must get on board. Anna Malos, Project Manager, climate and energy policy, ClimateWorks Australia Amandine Denis-Ryan, Head of National Programs, ClimateWorks Australia, Monash University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The biggest solar farm to be built in Australia outside of its two main grids in nearing completion, and miners are already counting the savings.

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US biofuel credit (RIN) values under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) surged by 11% on Monday after Democratic nominee Joe Biden was projected to win the presidency over the weekend, but prices swiftly came off over the course of the morning.

Switzerland has successfully completed its first carbon allowance auction since linking its emissions trading scheme with that of the EU.

Correspondence between federal and WA governments shows Scott Morrison proposed a bill as early as February

The federal government was preparing to legislate to hand environmental approval powers to state governments at the beginning of the year, well in advance of recommendations from a review of national laws that proposed such changes.

Documents obtained by Guardian Australia under freedom of information laws show Scott Morrison told the Western Australian premier, Mark McGowan, in February he wanted to introduce a bill to transfer environmental approval powers to state governments by midyear.

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Former senior officers of renewable energy agencies say government’s bill would undermine Clean Energy Finance Corporation’s independence

Former leaders of Australia’s renewable energy agencies have called on MPs to reject the Morrison government’s changes to the publicly owned green bank that would explicitly allow it to fund fossil fuel projects.

Under the changes, the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) would take responsibility for a long-promised $1bn “grid reliability fund” to underwrite new electricity generation, including fossil fuel power plants that run on gas.

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Researchers say trend could lead to supply problems and hinder efforts to promote healthy eating

The UK is increasingly reliant on fruit and vegetables imported from countries most vulnerable to the effects of the climate crisis, which could lead to supply problems, experts say.

A study published in Nature Food on Monday found that the proportion of fruit and vegetables supplies in the UK that was grown domestically dropped from 42% in 1987 to 22% in 2013. At the same time, the proportion imported from “climate-vulnerable” countries – those worst hit by climate breakdown – increased from 20% to 32%.

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The International Consultant (IC) on identification and facilitation of private sector investments in support of the national REDD+ strategy (hereafter ‘the Consultant’) will provide technical assistance to the Government of Malaysia in the development and establishment of a sustainable and overarching investment plan that will guide the allocation of investments that will support the implementation of the country’s REDD+ strategy.

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The Policy Director, Climate Justice will be responsible for developing and advancing a climate justice agenda at Audubon including understanding, addressing, integrating and adding issues of environmental justice across Audubon’s climate state and federal policy portfolio.

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EU carbon prices surged by nearly 7% to a one-month high on Monday, tracking wider financial markets higher on positive news surrounding the race for a COVID-19 vaccine.

The coronavirus mutation found in farmed mink in Denmark has arisen in the past, genetic data shows.

Greg Gianforte, who pleaded guilty to assaulting a Guardian reporter, has previously tried to strip environmental protections

Admirers of national parks and world-class trout streams in the state of Montana have expressed alarm over the election of a new Republican governor and his environmental plans.

The governor, former software developer Greg Gianforte, has in the past sought to strip protections from 700,000 acres of wilderness, and his conservative “Montana Comeback Plan” election platform promises to “streamline” permitting processes to increase logging, coalmining, and oil and gas production.

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